Improvement in carpet-bag frames



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

MATHS SGHMICKL, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARPET-BAG FRAMESI Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,851, dated August 4, 1874; application led March 30, 1874.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATHS SoHMIoKL, of Newark, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carpet-Bag Frames, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists in the arrangement of hinged levers, either at one or at both sides or ends of the frames, for oarpet-bags, valises, Ste., in the inside of the bag, in such a manner that by opening of the bag the hinged part of said levers will move above the line of connection of the levers to the frame, and thereby keep the frame, and consequently the bag or valise, open.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure I represents an inside view of a frame when closed, with the arrangement of the levers. Fig. II represents the frame with the levers in position when open, and Fig. III shows a top view of the same.

A A represent part of a frame hinged together at J, as usual, constructed for carpetbags, valises, 8m. To each leg of this frame A, on the inside and above the material attached to the frame, levers B and C, hinged together at E, are attached, by means of bolts or rivets n, passing through slotted holes m in the ends of said levers B and C, to allow a slight motion to said levers at their point of connection with the frame A. These levers B and C are fastened to the frames in sueh a position that when the frame is closed, as represented in, Fig. I, the joint E will come in a line with the joint J of the frame. These levers B and C may be made either of springsteel, slightly bent, so that the opening of the frame A will bring the spring-action of the levers into play to force the joint E upward above the line, passing through the point of connection of the outer ends of said levers B and U, with the frame A at the rivets n n; or small springs D D may be attached to the under side of these levers B and O, near the joint E, their other ends bearing against the inside of the frames A, whereby the joint E of the levers B and C will be forced upward, as shown in Fig. Il, as soon as the frame and the bag or valise are opened, keeping, thereby, the same open for the free admission of any article into the bag.

When the frame or the bag requires to be closed a pressure upon the joint E will, on aocount of the slotted holes m in the outer ends of the levers B and C, allow the same to be forced downward toward the line of the joint J of frame, when the frame or bag can be easily closed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The levers B and G, connected together by the joint E, having the springs D D riveted thereto, and attached to the frame of a carpetbag or valise by bolts passing through slots m in the end of the lever, substantially as and for the purpose set forth,

MATHAS SCHMICKL.

Witnesses:

HENRY E. RoEDER, A. E. COLLINS. 

